Deleting all files from a share - SMB

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greater than 8.3 format. When I go to this directory from a DOS prompt and
do 'del *.*', I get a bunch of errors 'Unable ...

Deleting all files from a share

I have a directory on Unix exposed as a Samba share. All the filenames are
greater than 8.3 format. When I go to this directory from a DOS prompt and
do 'del *.*', I get a bunch of errors 'Unable to find file ...'..

But, if the directory contained 500 files, after the 'del *.*' it contains
400 files.

I repeat the del *.*, get a few more errors Unable to find file ... and
now my files are down to 300. And so on.

When I copy the directory to a native NTFS filesystem, I dont get these
issues. del *.* removes all files in one shot.

What is wrong here? Do I need to play with the mangling parameters in
smb.conf? My file names are something like 11.12.10.3 format. Most of the
files have the first 11 characters the same.

If I do a 'dir /x', I get the 8.3 filenames fine with no apparent
collision, so why does del *.* have a problem?

Thanks for any help

Re: Deleting all files from a share

Have you tried just using
del *

Mark

"Vikas Agnihotri" wrote in message
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> I have a directory on Unix exposed as a Samba share. All the filenames are
> greater than 8.3 format. When I go to this directory from a DOS prompt and
> do 'del *.*', I get a bunch of errors 'Unable to find file ...'..
>
> But, if the directory contained 500 files, after the 'del *.*' it contains
> 400 files.
>
> I repeat the del *.*, get a few more errors Unable to find file ... and
> now my files are down to 300. And so on.
>
> When I copy the directory to a native NTFS filesystem, I dont get these
> issues. del *.* removes all files in one shot.
>
> What is wrong here? Do I need to play with the mangling parameters in
> smb.conf? My file names are something like 11.12.10.3 format. Most of the
> files have the first 11 characters the same.
>
> If I do a 'dir /x', I get the 8.3 filenames fine with no apparent
> collision, so why does del *.* have a problem?
>
> Thanks for any help